Today I’ve got a seafaring saga to share with you – the story of a four-masted Yankee schooner that was photographed while visiting New Zealand in the 1920’s. There are no pirates in this tale, but there is just about everything else. There are ghost ships, tempests and […]
There is cause for a bit of celebration as today marks one year since I started this little foray into the blogosphere. Occasions such as this are worthy of a vintage conga line! My aim was to post at least once a week for a year and with […]
On 25th April 1915, New Zealand and Australian forces landed at what would become known as ANZAC Cove. It wasn’t the first time that New Zealanders went into battle, and it wouldn’t be the last, but the exploits of our soldiers in that campaign have become legendary. It […]
Today I thought I’d share a snippet of aviation history that I found during some “front-line” ephemera collecting. It also has a bit of cricket geekery thrown in for good measure along with a D-Day reference AND a tropical cyclone. In the digital age most of my collecting […]
A year ago today I was fortunate enough to attend a dinner commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It wasn’t just any dinner, but a complete re-enactment of the last dinner that was served to the First Class Passengers on that fateful night. So […]
As a follow-up to my earlier post on the HMAS Encounter I thought I’d share another photograph from the same collection. Last time the identity of the ship was written on the back of the image by the photographer, but this time I know a lot less about […]
First of all, apologies for the brief absence on the blog front. I’ve been rather busy lately with the exception of an uncharacteristic migraine which waited until Otago’s regional holiday before ambushing me and rendering me useless, but I can’t complain, at least I’m not off to war […]
